"of James Joyce in the humane attention to detail and thought and the rather lyrical prose of the narrator Cait. The ending where Cait is betrayed by Mr Gentleman can be considered as a call by O'Brien for a reconsideration of the values of Irish/Catholic society. O'Brien helped to launch a new generation of Irish writers more focused on the demands and values of society, such as Anne Enright, Nuala O'Faolain and Colm Tóibín. The Country Girls The Country Girls is Edna O'Brien's first novel. Released in 1960, it is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social"
"The Girls (Cline novel) The Girls is a 2016 debut novel by American author Emma Cline. It is loosely inspired by the Manson Family and the murder of actress Sharon Tate. The majority of the novel is set in 1969 and focuses on 14 year old Evie Boyd who feels isolated and unloved and ends up spending the majority of that summer with a group of teenage girls on a ranch who are all devoted to a man named Russell. In the present day Evie Boyd is an elderly woman with few ties. An old friend of hers allows her"
"The Country Girl (1950 play) The Country Girl is a 1950 dramatic play by American playwright Clifford Odets which was subsequently adapted as a film of the same name in 1954. Uta Hagen played the title role of Georgie Elgin in its original production, alongside Paul Kelly as her husband Frank, and Steven Hill as theatre director Bernie Dodd. The production was directed by Odets, and ran for 30 weeks, accumulating 235 performances, from November 10, 1950 to June 2, 1951. Hagen received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, and set designer Boris Aronson also won for"
"Edna O'Brien Edna O'Brien, (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Philip Roth described her as ""the most gifted woman now writing in English"", while the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson cited her as ""one of the great creative writers of her generation"". O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men, and to society as a whole. Her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland following"
"Girls"", published by Oxford University Press. The University of Leeds awarded him an honorary D.Litt in 1949, and he received a CBE in 1953. In 1951, he was chosen president of the Virgil Society and seven years later vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. Patrick Kavanagh evoked the translations' crisp and readable character in a poem ""On Looking into E. V. Rieu's Homer"": E. V. Rieu Emile Victor Rieu CBE (10 February 1887 – 11 May 1972) was a British classicist, publisher, poet, and initiator and editor of the Penguin Classics series of books. Rieu was born in London,"
"The Country Girl (1954 film) The Country Girl is a 1954 American drama film directed by George Seaton and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and William Holden. Adapted by George Seaton from Clifford Odets' 1950 play of the same name, the film is about an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he has been given to resurrect his career. Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. It was entered in the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Kelly won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, which previously had earned Uta Hagen her first"
"said that when she learned that James Joyce's ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" was autobiographical, it made her realise where she might turn, should she want to write herself. ""Unhappy houses are a very good incubation for stories,"" she said. In London she started work as a reader for Hutchinson, where on the basis of her reports she was commissioned, for £50, to write a novel. She published her first book, ""The Country Girls"", in 1960. This was the first part of a trilogy of novels (later collected as ""The Country Girls Trilogy""), which included ""The"
"Jungle Girl (novel) Jungle Girl is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, set in a forgotten kingdom in the jungles of Cambodia. Burroughs started the novel in 1929 (2 October) under the working title ""The Dancing Girl of the Leper King"". It was first run serially in five installments from May to September 1931 by ""Blue Book Magazine"" under the title ""The Land of Hidden Men"". The book version was first published by ERB, Inc. on 15 April 1932. Ace Paperback has republished the book in paperback several times, again under the title ""The Land of Hidden Men""."
"Girl"" contains contradictory multitudes—it is the sea of female creativity, diasporic consciousness, and African history, yet also the sea of colonial exploitation, industrial decay, and obliteration of the black past—Marshall’s novel as a whole proposes a sense of selfhood which, like a prism, contains many faces, each one refracting at an acute angle of difference"". Brown Girl, Brownstones Brown Girl, Brownstones is the debut novel by the internationally recognized writer Paule Marshall, first published in 1959, and dramatized by CBS Television Workshop in 1960. The story is about Barbadian immigrants in Brooklyn, New York. The book gained further recognition after"
"the film was used in the Mika song ""Grace Kelly"". The film is referenced in the TV series ""I Love Lucy"" in the episode ""L.A., At Last"". Notes The Country Girl (1954 film) The Country Girl is a 1954 American drama film directed by George Seaton and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and William Holden. Adapted by George Seaton from Clifford Odets' 1950 play of the same name, the film is about an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he has been given to resurrect his career. Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay."
"detailed writing that I love… but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them."" Paule Marshall Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author, best known for her 1959 novel ""Brown Girl, Brownstones"". In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship Grant. Marshall was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn, NY, to Adriana Viola Clement Burke and Sam Burke. Marshall's father had migrated from Barbados to New York in 1919 and, during her childhood, deserted the"
"literary craft, but the teenaged themes are atypical for him and it was put out by one of the smaller publishing houses during his period of success. Neither the covers nor the other publisher's content of the book make reference to the work already published by the Charles Williams here in question. Charles Williams (U.S. author) Charles K. Williams (August 13, 1909–April 5, 1975) was an American author of crime fiction. He is regarded by some critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the paperback novel ""Hill Girl"", sold more than"
"The Land Girls The Land Girls is a 1998 film directed by David Leland and starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh and Ann Bell. It is based on the book ""Land Girls"" by Angela Huth. During both the First and Second World Wars, the Women's Land Army was set up in the United Kingdom, to recruit women to work at farms where men had left to go to war. Women in the WLA were nicknamed ""land girls"". Set in 1941 in the Dorset countryside, three ""land girls"" arrive on a remote farm. They are an unlikely trio:"
"girls in the 1960s and 1970s. The novel was also extremely popular and influential in 1950s Israel, though at present it is considered rather old-fashioned and no longer well-known to the current generation of young Israelis. In 1887, a sequel, called ""Testa"" (Head), was written by neurologist Paolo Mantegazza, Amicis' friend, which narrates the life of Enrico in his teens. In 1962, Umberto Eco published ""Elogio di Franti"" (""In Praise of Franti"") viewing Franti, the ""bad boy"" of the novel, as a figure of resistance against militarist and nationalist ideology. One of the two teenage characters in the film ""I"
"A Country Girl A Country Girl, or, Town and Country is a musical play in two acts by James T. Tanner, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank, music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens. The musical opened at Daly's Theatre in London, managed by George Edwardes, on 18 January 1902 and ran for 729 performances, which was the fourth longest run for any piece of musical theatre up to that time. It starred Hayden Coffin, Bertram Wallis, Evie Greene, Huntley Wright, Lilian Eldeé, Topsy Sinden, Ethyl Irving and Rutland Barrington. Isabel Jay joined"
"Girl (novel) Girl is a 1994 novel written by Blake Nelson. The book chronicles teen girl Andrea Marr's exploration of the Northwest music scene at the height of the ""grunge"" revolution. It was made into a film of the same name starring Dominique Swain, Portia de Rossi, and Selma Blair in 1998. Portions of the novel first appeared in Sassy Magazine. Two more installments of the GIRL Series are available on Amazon Kindle. Andrea Marr begins high school as an ordinary suburban teen. When her friend Cybil meets a mysterious and charismatic musician downtown, both girls begin a journey through"
"Best Scenic Design. The play was subsequently remounted on Broadway twice, in 1972 with Maureen Stapleton and Jason Robards, and in 2008, with Frances McDormand and Morgan Freeman. It was also produced twice Off-Broadway, in 1984, with Christine Lahti and Hal Holbrook, and in 1990, with Karen Allen and David Rasche. The play was produced for television twice, in 1974 with Georgie Elgin played by Shirley Knight, and in 1982 by Faye Dunaway. Notes The Country Girl (1950 play) The Country Girl is a 1950 dramatic play by American playwright Clifford Odets which was subsequently adapted as a film of"
"Margaret Forster Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic. She is best known for her 1965 novel ""Georgy Girl"", which was made into a successful film of the same name and inspired a hit song by The Seekers, as well as her 2003 novel ""Diary of an Ordinary Woman""; her biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; and her memoirs ""Hidden Lives"" and ""Precious Lives"". Forster was born in the Raffles council estate in Carlisle, England. She came from a working-class background. Her father, Arthur Forster,"
"Charles Williams (U.S. author) Charles K. Williams (August 13, 1909–April 5, 1975) was an American author of crime fiction. He is regarded by some critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the paperback novel ""Hill Girl"", sold more than a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for movies, most popularly ""Dead Calm"". Williams was born in the central Texas town of San Angelo. After attending school through tenth grade, during 1929 he enlisted with the US Merchant Marine. He served for ten years before quitting to marry"
"Country Girl"" was first performed in America at a theater in New York in 1806. In the New York production, Mr. Harwood as Moody, Mr. Barrymoore once again as Harcourt, Mr. Twaits as Sparkish, Mr. Holland as Belville, Mr. Maddocks as William, Mr. Purser as the Countryman, Mrs. Jones as Miss Peggy, Miss Mellon as Alithea, and Mrs. Scott as Lucy. The Country Girl (1766 play) The Country Girl by David Garrick is a derivative play adapted from ""The Country Wife"" by William Wycherley. By the time David Garrick adapted ""The Country Wife"" into ""The Country Girl"", Wycherley's play was"
"age text"". It is also considered the best literary rendering of the 1990s subcultures Riot Grrrl and Grunge Rock. Girl (novel) Girl is a 1994 novel written by Blake Nelson. The book chronicles teen girl Andrea Marr's exploration of the Northwest music scene at the height of the ""grunge"" revolution. It was made into a film of the same name starring Dominique Swain, Portia de Rossi, and Selma Blair in 1998. Portions of the novel first appeared in Sassy Magazine. Two more installments of the GIRL Series are available on Amazon Kindle. Andrea Marr begins high school as an ordinary"
"Lilian Bell Lilian Lida Bell (pen name, Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue; 1867–1929) was an American novelist and travel writer. Her works included ""At Home with Jardines"", ""Hope Loring"", ""Abroad with the Jimmies"", ""The Interference of Patricia"", ""A Book of Girls"", and ""The Lilian Bell Birthday Book"". In addition to her novels, Bell was a travel writer; Amelia Edwards, Vernon Lee, and Edith Wharton were contemporaries. Lilian Lida Bell was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1867, but she was brought up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Dearborn Seminary, Chicago. Her father, Maj. William W. Bell, served during the American Civil"
"convent school in search of life and love in the big city, they struggle to maintain their somewhat tumultuous relationship. Cait, dreamy and romantic, yearns for true love, while Baba just wants to experience the life of a single girl. Although they set out to conquer the world together, as their lives take unexpected turns, Cait and Baba must ultimately learn to find their own way. The Irish censorship board banned ""The Country Girls"" upon its publication. The novel is an exploration of the trials and tribulations of two friends set against the backdrop of 1950s Ireland, showing the influence"
"Gabriel Fielding Gabriel Fielding (25 March 1916, Hexham, Northumberland, England – 27 November 1986, Bellevue, Washington), pen name of Alan Gabriel Barnsley, was a British novelist whose works include: ""In the Time of Greenbloom"", ""The Birthday King"", ""Through Streets Broad and Narrow"" and ""The Women of Guinea Lane"". Fielding's father, George, was an Anglican vicar at Hexham and his mother, Katherine Fielding Barnsley, was a descendant of the novelist Henry Fielding. His pen name was derived from his illustrious ancestor. 1925-29 Secondary education started at now defunct Grange School in Eastbourne. 1929-1931 Attended St Edwards School, Oxford 1933 Attended Faircourt"
"Country Girl (Dottie West song) ""Country Girl"" is a song co-written and recorded by the American country music artist Dottie West. It was released in March 1968 as the first single and title track from the album ""Country Girl"". The song peaked at number 15 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart. In addition, ""Country Girl"" was West's first song to enter the Canadian ""RPM"" Country chart, reaching a peak of number 5. West wrote the song with Red Lane. West was recruited in 1973 to write and sing jingles for Coca-Cola commercials after an associate of McCann-Erickson Advertising heard"
"is now most recognised as a successful writer. She has written three collections of short stories and eleven novels. Her novel, ""Land Girls"" (1995), was a best-seller and was made into a 1998 feature film, ""The Land Girls"" starring Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel. A 2010 sequel was called ""Once a Land Girl."" Both are about the land girls – British women who worked on farms during World War II while the men were fighting the war. She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster. Her play ""The Understanding"" ran at"
"then, her writing has been published in multiple journals, and in 2016 she published ""The Girls"", her debut novel. Cline's first novel, ""The Girls"", was published in 2016 by Random House Publishing. Cline was offered a $2 million advance by Random House, who outbid 11 other publishers for the novel. American film producer Scott Rudin bought the film rights to book shortly before it was acquired by the Random House. The novel is based in part off of the Charles Manson cult and murders of the late 1960s. The story is told from the view point of Evie Boyd, a"
"in collaboration with Clara M. Lewis. In 1947, her book ""Miss Hickory"" won the Newbery Medal. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children's author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the ""Ladies' Home Journal"" and other magazines. She published volumes of stories for children like methods of story telling, teaching children and other related subjects, which include ""Boys and Girls of Colonial Days"" (1917); ""Broad Stripes and Bright Stars"" (1919); ""Hero Stories"" (1919);"
"Carolyn Chute Carolyn Chute (born Carolyn Penny, June 14, 1947) is an American writer and populist political activist strongly identified with the culture of poor, rural western Maine. Rod Dreher, writing in ""The American Conservative"", has referred to Chute as ""a Maine novelist and gun enthusiast who, along with her husband, lives an aggressively unorthodox life in the Yankee backwoods."" Chute's first, and best known, novel, ""The Beans of Egypt, Maine"", was published in 1985 and made into a 1994 film of the same name, directed by Jennifer Warren. Chute's next two books, ""Letourneau's Used Auto Parts"" (1988) and ""Merry"
"A Small Country A Small Country is an English-language novel by Siân James, first published by HarperCollins in 1979. It is James's third novel, and has come to be regarded as a significant publication in Anglo-Welsh literature. It includes themes of Welsh identity and women's experience in the pre-First World War period. Set in 1914, the novel deals with the lives of a farming family in Carmarthenshire. The son, Tom, and daughter, Catrin, are both restless in their rural existence and their father, Josi, abandons his wife and the farm to live with a local schoolteacher. A new edition, with"
"hilariously funny."" He was married to Edwina Eleanora Cook. They had five children: Jonathan, Mario Simon, Felicity, Mary Gabriel, and Fractal mathematician Michael Barnsley. Gabriel Fielding died in Bellevue, Washington on 27 November 1986. Gabriel Fielding Gabriel Fielding (25 March 1916, Hexham, Northumberland, England – 27 November 1986, Bellevue, Washington), pen name of Alan Gabriel Barnsley, was a British novelist whose works include: ""In the Time of Greenbloom"", ""The Birthday King"", ""Through Streets Broad and Narrow"" and ""The Women of Guinea Lane"". Fielding's father, George, was an Anglican vicar at Hexham and his mother, Katherine Fielding Barnsley, was a descendant"
"Land Girls (TV series) Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. ""Land Girls"" was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a period drama. ""Land Girls"" was filmed in and around the city of Birmingham. The first series features Summer Strallen, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock and Becci Gemmell as four girls doing their bit for Britain in the Women's Land Army during the war. ""Land Girls"""
"Young Girls"") (1936–1939), which sold millions of copies and was translated into 13 languages. His late novel ""Chaos and Night"" was published in 1963. The novels were praised by writers as diverse as Aragon, Bernanos, and Malraux. Montherlant was well known for his anti-feminist and misogynistic views, as exemplified particularly in ""The Girls"". Simone de Beauvoir considered his attitudes about women in detail in her ""The Second Sex"". He wrote plays such as ""Pasiphaé"" (1936), ""La Reine morte"" (1942, the first of a series of historical dramas), ""Le Maître de Santiago"" (1947), ""Port-Royal"" (1954) and ""Le Cardinal d'Espagne"" (1960). He"